A repository to help the stakeholders in the Indian region... Others welcome too

Friday May 11, 2012

With a PeopleTools 8.50 license, you are able to install and configure a PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal database to host collaborative services to be integrated with your PeopleSoft applications. Within the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal you may use Collaborative Workspaces and any functionality that is delivered out of the box within a Collaborative Workspace. Specifically, this entitles you to use:

Integration with external email and calendar systems through delivered pagelets

Related links from and to PeopleSoft application pages and components

Related discussions from PeopleSoft application pages and components

Resource Finder within a workspace

Task and worklist integration through delivered pagelets

Though a list mentioned above is pretty much, but how does one actually take benefit from it?

So, this is what one of my customer is doing:

They have allowed the creation of workspace to faculties and student alike.

With this, students can create groups (sharing files and documents). Needless to say, the file size (< 4MB, etc.) and the format (only .doc, .xls, etc.) can be restricted here.

Similarly, faculty can create groups (and they have mapped groups to the classes they teach). So, if a faculty is teaching 4 courses in the session, he/she creates 4 workspaces and gives rights to all the student who are enrolled in his/her class. The benefits that are reaped could extend to assignment disbursement, assignment collection, calendar sharing, notices, announcements, alerts, faculty blog, etc. for that specific class/course.

The utility has also been extended to the administration/management where they collaborate over a workspaces and capture aspects like minutes of meetings, policy documents, etc. over one place. A big expensive DMS (Document Management System) can be avoided for such simple needs.

Feature packs refer to new functionality including relevant new and updated 'existing' features that have been released after the GA of Campus Solutions Release 9.0. Since they come every six months, I thought it would be good to put all in one place so that it can become a reference point for our stakeholders.

The table has two columns - The 'Document Link' column has a hyperlink to the documentation of the feature released, which is described in the 'Description' column.

Campus Solutions is not
delivering a 9.1 application release along with the other Enterprise Peoplesoft
Product Lines:

New features and
functionality will be delivered via Campus Solutions "Feature Packs"
1-2 times per year.

There will be no 9.1 Peoplebooks content.

There are no 9.1 upgrade scripts from Campus Solutions
8.9 or 9.0 to HCM 9.1.

CS objects remain in the HCM 9.1 database for now, but
are no longer active or supported.

What upgrade paths are supported for customers who wish to upgrade
to the latest releases of CS and HCM?If a customer is currently using HCM in a stand-alone database instance, they
will be able to upgrade to HCM 9.1 using one of the supported upgrade paths
posted to My Oracle Support.

If a customer is in a combined HR/CS database instance on CS 8.9, the supported
upgrade path is as follows:
1. Upgrade HRMS to 9.1
2. Upgrade CS to 9.0

If a customer is in a combined HR/CS 9.0 database instance, the supported
upgrade path is to upgrade to HRMS 9.1 in a separate instance. CS will remain
on release 9.0, and new features/functions will be delivered via Feature
Packs/Additional Features.

All Feature packs will be rolled into subsequent CS
bundles. CS bundles will continue to be rolled into regularly scheduled HR/CS
Maintenance Packs. For more information, please see the Campus
Solutions 9.0 Maintenance Guidelines[ID 703646.1].

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Author: Mohit Phogat

This site focuses on Oracle's offerings to higher education in the Indian region. It intends to cover news, reviews, guides, how-to articles, descriptive videos, and podcasts on the trends which should be helpful to customers, prospects and developer community alike.